JohnDBarrow

I was told about Harris' anti-gun policy from Gun Owners of America, Inc, a credible source. Harris was also for more Red Flag confiscation laws, taking guns way without due process. VP Kamala Harris Becomes Biden’s ‘Gun Czar’ As War On Second Amendment Goes In Overdrive | GOA I don't believe in "gun violence". Guns are NOT violent.

Harris was a threat to my guns I was told. Trump is also protecting the southern border against those evil cartels. Those wetbacks have come into America to murder children. The VA has the MISSION Act so that Vets can choose private healthcare providers in the community to be paid for by the VA.

I am an American Veteran, however. I don't think the GOP will axe Veteran's benefits. I had to vote for Trump/GOP to protect my guns including my Colt Carbine 5.56 (AR-15 clone).

I wonder what energy think tank President Trump subscribes to. I have just looked at one webinar on YouTube by IEA. It seems like the economy is the main driver in world energy. Consumers will seek the least expensive alternatives for energy regardless how clean, dirty, safe or unsafe the various energy sources are. I drive a 1995 Toyota Corolla pure-combustible-fuels-powered automobile that is still highly reliable and achieves 30+ on the highway still. This car is running on 10% renewable energy right now: 10% grade Ethanol gasoline with ingredients from Iowa corn. You see pictures of yellow ears of corn right on local gas pumps here and the slogan: Clean energy for Iowa. I paid $2,300 for this car back in 2013. I am disabled and live in a semi-rural community with limited to no bus service. I am highly car dependent. There is no cheaper alternative to this automobile than I can think of. My senior apartment complex, built new in 2022, doesn't even make provisions for plugging in tenants' EV's here anyway. Our central heating system uses heat pump technology.

What I need to do is seek out the leading think tank authority on world energy. Do any people here place any credibility as to what think tanks say? Who is the number one think tank on energy today?

Gasoline prices were as low as $1.21/gallon where I was living under Trump's watch in 2020.

President Trump made me believe that "drill, baby, drill" means cheap energy bills and cheap gasoline for me, the American consumer. Who really benefits from "drill, baby, drill"? It's probably a lot cheaper to drill than frack.

There is a finite quantity of fossil fuels and materials to produce nuclear energy on Planet Earth. It's only a question of how long before the world takes renewable energy dead serious. It's not a question of if but of when. Should governments now mandate EV manufacture and use? Is EV manufacture and use now mandated in your nation? Should energy production, distribution and consumption be driven solely by markets? In the United States of America, the GOP policy on energy now is "drill, baby, drill". That is extract crude oil and natural gas on American soil to the fullest extent possible and even export these fossil fuels worldwide to strengthen the American economy. The GOP is not too keen now on continuing to push or advance renewable energy. I sit in my home right now in central Iowa. It is near zero outside this morning in late January of 2025 AD. I'm cozy in my bedroom right now with the electric space heater running. I'm totally grid dependent. I gather the electricity off my meter comes, at least mostly, from fossil fuel sources. I sit and wonder what folks in central Iowa will do 200, 500 or 1,000 years from now. Will they have renewable energy for home heat? Will it be wood burned in the hearth or wood stove? Will it be electricity from renewable sources?

I'm not fishing here, pal. I'm glad President Trump pardoned all those wrongly-jailed American Patriots who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 06, 2021 to protest the rigged election. The Gulf of America is fine by me.

They most certainly got my vote in November of 2024 as Donald and Mike Pence got my vote in 2020 and in 2016. It was nice to see fake senile Old Joe and that fake ex-VP dame get out of Washington on that helicopter and that big jet airplane. I agree with Donald Trump that Biden/Harris never had a legitimate administration in the first place because the 2020 election was tampered with. I saw Trump's inaugural speech. He said, DRILL, BABY, DRILL! He doesn't like that federal mandate to push electric automobiles onto the public also. The whole EV thing has a way to go before it blooms in full and is ripened to perfection. At age 60, I will probably be confined to fossil fuels for the remainder on my life at least in this reincarnation of myself. But after that is all said, I would still rather use fossil fuels from American soil than be forced to use them from abroad to keep the gasoline prices down as much as possible. I do realize that fossil fuels provided by planet Earth will not be continued to be consumed here forever. Nuke power is finite as well. There will come a future time, as long as mankind exists on Earth, that renewable energy sources will be truly taken dead serious on this planet.

5 million American popular votes is "thin "? What about Don's getting 312 electoral votes to the anti-gun dame's 226?

No, I'm asking you? ESKIMO doesn't bother me.

Well, racist lyrics don't bother you? What gives?

Can you imagine "Indigenous" (as opposed to Indian) motorcycles? How about making woke changes in The Christmas Song: "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Jack Frost nipping at your TITS Yuletide carols being sung by a choir And folks dressed up like INUITS." Bob Dylan revised: Ev'rybody's building the big ships and the boats Some are building monuments Others are jotting down notes Ev'rybody's in despair Ev'ry girl and boy But when Quinn the INUIT gets here Ev'rybody's jump for joy Come all without, come all within You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn I like to do just like the rest, I like my sugar sweet But guarding fumes and making haste It ain't my cup of meat Ev'rybody's just standing 'round 'neath the trees Feeding pigeons on a limb But when Quinn the INUIT gets here Them pigeons'll go to him Come all without, come all within You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn A lamb bleat and a goat do, I can recite 'em all Just tell me where it hurts And I'll tell you who to call Nobody can get any sleep There's someone on ev'ryone's toes But when Quinn the INUIT gets here Ev'rybody's gonna doze Come all without, come all within You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn Come all without, come all within You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn

Eskimo Pie is no longer. The Cleveland Indians are no longer. The Washington Redskins are no longer. The cook on the Cream of Wheat box is no longer. Aunt Jemima is no longer. ESKIMO is a fun word. INDIAN is a fun word. The COOK made Cream of Wheat fun to eat. Ford got rid of the MERCURY trademark because it is a Roman god which might offend folks of other faiths. PONTIAC was Native American so General Motors axed it. PLYMOUTH is gone from Chrysler Motors because the name sounds too Anglo-Saxon. The OLD in OLDSMOBILE might have offended the anti-ageism crowd. Who knows? I hate it when there are those woke-sters who make every effort to rid America of her unique heritage and culture. My mother always bought Eskimo Pie. All that said, I will NEVER buy an Edy's Pie! Fat Boy and Klondike with the polar bear on the label are fine by me. PS - The Woke Police and others on the Left are out to take away anything that is FUN!

In the 1940's, our loving technology companies trained us how to use such weird novel contraptions as dial telephones with such politeness and professionalism. Do we get this level of care and training from mobile providers today? Will Apple iPhone come to small American communities for town hall meetings to educate farm folks on their latest gear? Comparing a dial telephone to a party line system with a hand crank to summon the operator is like comparing a 1977 Radio Shack TRS-80 computer with cassette ROM BASIC to your latest Windows 11 notebook PC

I feel a prisoner to so much STUFF! The bible even says one day we will not be able to buy or sell unless the number 666 is stamped on us. Technology is The Beast of Revelation. I still wear a watch on my wrist. It is still easier than pulling the damn phone out of my fanny pack to get the time of day. This 1950's documentary film taught Americans how to use a dial telephone. They had been so accustomed for so long to party lines and live human operators. You summoned the operator but turning the crank previously.

Pardon? I'm sorry, I don't follow.

I still refer to my Moto E6 as a telephone. Every app on it works fine except for Walmart, Sam's Club and Mister Car Wash. Being an environmentalist, I will not buy any new product I feel I don't need. I will "drive" my refurbished Moto from Tello/T-Mobile ($10.80 per month) until the "wheels" fall off, but it really has no wheels anyway. I will run it into the ground like my '95 Corolla.

The only things I buy at Sam's are gasoline, dog food, eggs, chicken and meat. The meat and chicken is frozen at home and everything will be used up before it goes bad. I bought 90 (7 1/2 dozen) eggs in a cardboard box at Sam's at 21 cents per egg. These eggs will keep for months in the fridge and my big refrigerator offers the space for them. I have a chest freezer for meats in bulk. There are no meglamarts in my central Iowa that I'm aware of. I have yet to see anybody who can beat Sam's nearby for those things I do buy there. Almost anything else comes from Walmart. I buy Good and Gather frozen fruit from Target because the price is right for the quality. I use a VISA card to get the cash rewards and also so unscrupulous merchants can be charged back if there is dispute. I bought some underwear at Walmart last month that did not fit. Walmart only refunded me half the total. I filed a dispute with Bank of America. Cash doesn't offer that level of buyer security and cash is hard to replace if it gets lost.

PS - I see your C. Sagan remark about time. People, and perhaps animals, are time aware when they are in pain, suffering or are hungry. Whenever we feel good, time flies and we seem to pay no mind to it. Humans place importance on time due to the understanding of our physical mortality and that we don't seem to have forever to accomplish whatever. Some Christians claim time is irrelevant and means nothing to God.

I have just joined Sam's Club in America recently to try to save money on things like gasoline, dog food, eggs and meats. I have found some good savings, but I don't like the notion that I must be forced to use my mobile telephone in order to transact business at Sam's or anywhere else. My phone is OK to summon an Uber ride, I guess. Sam's Club will no longer issue physical membership card to its members forcing them to be a prisoner of their phone. I had to have a gas station attendant show me how to use my phone to pump gas into my automobile. The Sam's Club app is about as difficult and slow to load into my Android 9 Moto E6 phone as the Walmart app. What if the phone dies, is lost, is broken or the batteries run out? It is asinine that people don't have membership cards as backup. Some older and disabled people might have difficulty using phone technology to do a whole host of things. I was born in 1964. Telephones plugged into the wall and had dials that turned to place calls. Telephones were once used to have voice conversations at a distance. They were by no means a workstation.

The sweet and authentic-sounding mock sound of a large V-8 engine in a non-combustion automobile might even be a pleasure to the driver. There is nothing worse than hearing a radio loudspeaker inside a public restroom when one is trying to sit on the pot with privacy, peace and quiet. The entrance doors to these bathrooms left wide open so all the store noise blasts inside. Walmart is the worst noise offender for supermarket shoppers. Retarded store employees carrying on in loud voices laughing and joking, loud forklift beeps, that hillbilly crap or rap crap they play over the loudspeaker in Iowa and Oklahoma. It makes me have to wear my noise-cancelling music headset inside these stores.

This one sounds like the transporter room on the Starship Enterprise when Scotty is beaming Kirk or Spock. A sweet big V-8 purr would be fine by me.